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Debbie joined DFID in 2001 having previously worked in the private sector. She has extensive experience of delivering programmes across Africa, Asia and Latin America including conflict settings and has worked in policy, cor…
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Debbie Ward is Homes England’s Interim Director for Transformation. Debbie joined Homes England at the end of 2019 and has been responsible for developing the local government capacity centre of excellence. Debbie learned he…
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Deborah was appointed Director of Trade & Investment for Malaysia with effect from 1 February 2017. Background Deborah joined the Civil Service in 1984 and her career has focused largely on trade and investment, with an …
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Deborah Gregory is a member of the Board at the Regulator of Social Housing. She is recently retired having been at Hogan Lovells International LLP (or its predecessor firms) for 40 years (with 33 years as a partner). Debora…
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Deborah Kobewka was appointed as Cluster Lead for Healthcare UK, Lifesciences and Bioeconomy at the Department for International Trade (DIT) in August 2018. Deborah has over 30 years’ experience in healthcare, beginning her …
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Deborah McKenzie joined PHE on 1 April 2013. Career highlights: programme director developing and implementing a number of leadership programmes for the Department of Health associate partner with Accenture, leading a number…
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Deborah McLaughlin joined the Homes and Communities Agency in December 2008. Before this, she was Housing Director, Manchester City Council.
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Deborah McLaughlin joined HM Land Registry as Non-Executive Director in February 2025. She also serves as Chair of Ashton Mayoral Development Zone, Non-Executive Director at Mersey Care NHS Trust and Non-Executive Director o…
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Deborah works at Veritas Investment Management looking after private client portfolios, which she combines with her role as a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Tr…
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Debra has devoted more than 32 years to working in the pensions industry and has a wide range of experience including in-house and outsourced schemes, in both private and public sector schemes. Debra joined the Cabinet Offic…
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Declan Collier is the Chair of the Office of Rail and Road. Previously, Declan was CEO of London City Airport, a role which he held since 2012, and prior to that he was CEO of Dublin Airports Authority for 7 years. He is cur…
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Dehenna Davison was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities from 7 September 2022 to 18 September 2023.
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Deirdre Brown is former Deputy Head of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe based in Vienna. She left post in June 2025. Deirdre joined the then Foreign & Commonwealth…
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Deirdre Costigan was appointed Assistant Whip, House of Commons on 7 September 2025. She was elected as the MP for Ealing Southall in July 2024.
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Demis Hassabis was the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a neuroscience-inspired AI company, bought by Google in Jan 2014. He is now Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind and leads Google’s general AI efforts.
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Denis Keefe joined the FCO in 1982 and has served in Prague (twice) and Nairobi. He spent 3 years as Ambassador to Georgia before joining the Embassy in Moscow in 2010 as the Minister and Deputy Head of Mission. In London he…
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Denis Keefe has been Ambassador to Serbia since June 2014, following 3 years as Ambassador to Georgia, and 4 years as Minister and Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow. Denis joined the UK Foreign Office in 1982. At the British …
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Dennis Hone was appointed Director of Finance and Corporate Services at the Olympic Delivery Authority ( ODA ) in 2006. He became Chief Executive in February 2011, replacing Sir David Higgins, following his appointment as Ch…
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Dennis has over 25 years’ experience in the nuclear industry with a focus on nuclear operations and low level waste management. He started his career as a start-up (commissioning) engineer with DuPont at the Savannah River S…
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Nigel Holmes became Deputy High Commissioner to the Republic of Cameroon in May 2020. Prior to this, he was the Head of the FCO’s National Security Research Group, which leads for the FCDO in understanding terrorism, extremi…
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Rob Fitzpatrick has been Deputy High Commissioner to Cameroon since September 2023. Prior to Cameroon he has served overseas in Nigeria, South Africa and Afghanistan. In the UK his previous roles include work on Afghanistan,…
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Ben Stride became the UK Deputy High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia in June 2024. Ben joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 2003, and has previously been posted to the British High Commission …
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Derek took up his appointment as Acting Consul-General in Ekaterinburg on 29 March 2018. He is a career diplomat, who has undertaken a range of jobs in the UK and around the world including: 2017 British Embassy Moscow, Depu…
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Derek is a professional economist with interests in competition, regulation and public policy. He started his career in the UK Government Economic Service before working for 15 years as a consultant in the London office of m…
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Derek Ross joined the Student Loans Company (SLC) in 1999. He was appointed to the Executive Board in 2001 and since then has held a number of executive roles. He became Director of Operations in 2010. Before joining SLC, De…
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Derek joined the civil service in 1991 as a casual Administrative Officer working in Looe Jobcentre in Cornwall. He had numerous roles in the early part of his career in different offices across Cornwall, working with empl…
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Dharmash was appointed as a CMA Board member in February 2024. Dharmash is a venture capitalist, specialising in technology, new business models and finance. He has served on a wide range of board in executive and non-execut…
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Diana Breeze is the Director of Group HR for Bunzl PLC, the global distribution and outsourcing group. She is a member of their Executive Committee and attends the Remuneration and Nominations Committees. Prior to this, she …
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Diana Brightmore-Armour joined the board of DCLG in February 2011. Career Diana has 30 years of international experience in banking, corporate finance, financial management, treasury and audit, with roles including: Group Tr…
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Diane Herbert is a Non-Executive Director at HMRC . She joined Channel 4 as Director of Human Resources in March 2005. As part of the Executive Team, Diane’s role includes Organisation Development, Leadership, 4 Talent, Dive…
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Dianna Melrose has been High Commissioner to the United Republic of Tanzania since February 2013. She is also the UK representative to the East African Community. Dianna was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Cuba between 2008 and …
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Dianne joined the SIA in 2003 as Assistant Director of Compliance and Investigation. She worked in a number of operational roles before taking on the Director of Corporate Services role in April 2013. She was appointed as th…
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Digby Griffith joined the Home Office in 1988. He was appointed as Director, National Operational Services at the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) in 2011. His previous roles include: Director, Offender Management…
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Ms Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam took up the role of Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands in June 2023. Curriculum Vitae Date Role 2023 to present Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands 2017 to 2023 Cabinet Office, Direct…
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Appointed Non-Executive Chair September 2020 Chairman of Investment Committees for the 2020 European Fund for Energy, Climate Change and Infrastructure, and for Marguerite II Fund. Non-Executive Board Director at Canaccord G…
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Ken McCallum is the Director General of the Security Service (also known as MI5). He is an MI5 officer with more than 25 years of experience across the full spectrum of the organisation’s national security and intelligence w…
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Vel has worked for the British Government for over 15 years in various international roles covering defence, development and diplomacy. Immediately prior to coming to Tanzania, he was Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State…
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Michael Walker has been a judicial member of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service Board since April 2011. Michael was appointed as a district judge in April 1994. He has been seconded to the Senior Presiding Judge’s office …
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Tim Jenkins has been a judicial member of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service Board since October 2016. Tim became a solicitor in 1980 and was appointed as a district judge in 1998, having been a deputy district judge sinc…
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ulyan joined the IPO in 1998 as a Patent Examiner. He moved to dealing with IP policy issues in 2000, covering a range of portfolios including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and the World Trade Organisation TRIPs Agreement.…
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Chief Digital Officer (Interim) at Homes England.
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Dominic Field was appointed lead non-executive director at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ( DSIT ) in November 2024. He was previously a non-executive director at DSIT from April to November 2024. Domi…
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Dominic Fortescue was appointed Government Chief Security Officer in January 2019, and is Head of the Government Security Function. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1991 and brings with him a great deal of experience, hav…
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Dominic Herrington was appointed Executive Director for Transforming Delivery Directorate in June 2022. This role sits within His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, which is an Executive Agency sponsored by the Ministry…
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Dominic joined IPO in 2016 as Deputy Director of HR and Organisational Development. Dominic was appointed Acting Director of People, Places and Services in September 2017 before moving into the role on a permanent basis in M…
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Dominic Jermey was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor-Leste in 2023. Dominic’s previous diplomatic postings include serving as HM Ambassador to Afghanistan (2016 to 2017) and to the United Arab Emirate…
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Dominic McAllister is Consul General at the British Consulate-General Wuhan. His principle focus is developing long-term productive UK/China partnerships. Dominic has been a UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office di…
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Dominic Meiklejohn OBE has served as a British diplomat since 1990. He has worked in Poland, Iraq and Albania. Among various roles in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Dominic led Rapid Deployment Teams in Sri L…
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Dominic has 28 years experience in the nuclear industry. He studied chemical engineering at university and worked in the petrochemical industry before moving to Nuclear Electric. Dominic came to DSRL in 2019 to work on the p…
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Dominic O’Neill was previously the Head of DFID in Nepal (2011-13), Sierra Leone (2008-11), Iraq (2007) and Yemen (2003-6). Prior to joining DFID in 2002 he worked in Namibia, Mongolia then Chile with Voluntary Service Overs…